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Taking advantage of Friday the 13th, Netflix has released a sizzle reel for its “Netflix & Chills” horror brand, as well as release dates and first-look images for four original movies.
Check out the schedule below for the genre program, which includes original films and series as well as acquired fare like FX’s Americ…

Anthony Michael Hall has join the cast of HalloweenKills, the first of two announced sequels in David Gordon Green and Danny McBride's reincarnation of the Universal franchise. Deadline has confirmed that the veteran actor will star alongside Halloween queen Jamie Lee Curtis.
The continuation of the rebooted…

Universal has confirmed that David Gordon Green and Danny McBride’s successful reincarnation of John Carpenter’s Halloween franchise from Blumhouse is indeed returning — with not one but two new films.
The studio said Friday that Halloween Kills will bow on October 16, 2020, and Halloween Ends, is set for October 15…

When Deadline runs its Most Valuable Blockbuster film profitability countdown each year, readers often ask about certain wildly profitable films that didn't crack our top list. So we've once again had five overachievers (pics with production budgets under $40 million) broken down by the experts.
With the Disney-Fox…

Comcast beat Wall Street estimates in the fourth quarter of 2018 as it reported financials for British pay-TV giant Sky for the first time.
The conglomerate reported earnings per share of 64 cents with revenue growing 26% to $27.8B for the quarter and $94.5B for the year. Comcast CEO and Chairman Brian Roberts called…

A Chicago-laden NBC pulled off a primetime demo win, despite Fox’s original Empire.Chicago Fire (1.2, 7.91M) and Chicago PD (1.1, 6.95M) captured their timeslots in the 18-49 age bracket; all three of NBC’s Chicago dramas took their hours in total viewers. Last time NBC scored the demo win on a Wednesday featuring an…

EXCLUSIVE Not only can a scary horror film trailer lead to an opening weekend that leaves a film profitable by Monday, great trailers can achieve immortality of their own. Unforgettably jarring trailers for The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Ring,Halloween, The Shining, The Blair Witch Project, Psycho and Paranormal Act…

UPDATE, writethru: There's lots of varied action at the international box office this weekend, with milestones — and near-milestones — aplenty. Coming in again at No.1 domestically and worldwide, Universal/Miramax/Blumhouse's Halloween takes the top spot in its second offshore frame. It scared up $25.6M for a $45.6M…

Sunday AM Update with chartafter Friday 11:04PM and Saturday AM update: While it’s often written that the weekend that lands prior to or around Halloween is deathly slow, it really depends on what the studios put on the marquee. We could have said the same thing about the third weekend in October, that it’s just a…

NBC News chief Andy Lack opened a town hall with his staff this afternoon by blasting the on-air remarks Megyn Kelly made on her show Tuesday, in which she defended the use of blackface at Halloween.
“I want to address just one” topic before taking questions, Lack told staff, diving into “the Megyn Kelly situation&#8221…